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Literary Award sites (look to these to find some good reads)

• Overall list from Canada Council for the Arts
• Toronto Book award

Junior (gr. 9/10)

• National Book Award: 2011, 2010, 2000 - 2009

Senior (Gr. 11/12)

• Giller Prize for Fiction (Canada)
• Governor General's Award for Fiction (past winners)
• Booker (UK)
• Pulitizer for Fiction (USA): 2011, 2010, 2009
• Nobel for Literature (body of work)

Check out some of these cool sites on literature.

• White Pine @Haig
• World Literature: worldlit.pdf
• Jewish Literature

E-texts

Anthologies:

• bartleby.com (Complete works of Shakespeare, Strunk's Style, Poetry Anthologies)
• Project Gutenberg

Short Fiction:

• Classic Shorts
• American Short Stories

Verse (Poetry):

• U of T's Representative Poetry (e-texts of poetry including: Canadian)
  
  
  

Podcasts/Websites

• CBC Books (news, podcasts,
• CBC Writers and Company (podcast: interviews with authors)
• CBC archives: books (also - poetry)
• Quill and Quire (Canadian reviews of literature)
• Globe and Mail Books
• Toronto Star Books
• NPR Books (American Public Radio)
• New York Times Books
• New Yorker Fiction & Poetry
• BBC writers' archives
• BBC Radio 4: Books and Authors (podcast)
• Radio France - Littérature